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Angling,news and comment from around the loch. The news pages of St Mary's Angling Club on St Mary's loch in the Scottish Borders UK.

Sunday, 9 October 2016

AGM delayed!

Photo 01 - Visiting angler with a fine 7lbs Pike!

AGM delayed!

Now delaying
an AGM is not a usual procedure for a club to take but the executive committee
met this week and felt there was no option but to postpone it until next year.
Naturally only extraordinary circumstances would trigger such a move but those
are exactly the circumstances we are currently experiencing!

As usual
these days it is the pestilent Mr Xxxxx who plagues us, even in his absence he
causes carnage. Not content with costing the club huge amounts of money during
his tenure he now blights the progress of the club from the sidelines. The AGM
is the forum for club members to express their opinions and direct the committee
for the coming year.

The
difficulty we have is that we do not know who the club members are as Mr Xxxxx still holds our database! Yes we have almost certainly got the details of all
the new members but we do not know last year’s drop outs so are still
significantly in the dark as regards who the members are.

This being
the case anyone friendly with Mr Xxxxx could obtain a membership card and
attend our AGM and we would be unable to verify their membership! Barring entry
to any that we do not know would be inappropriate as we may prevent bona fide
members who we have not yet met from attending their meeting!

The only proper
course of action to be taken is to postpone the AGM until issuing of
memberships for 2017 has been completed. By taking such a measure anyone who
does not appear on our up to date database as a paid or approved honorary
member will not be admitted to the AGM,with
no exceptions! It will also give us an opportunity to review the membership
to see if any or Mr Xxxxx’s admissions were inappropriate!

We can but
apologise for this action but as we are sure you will see the action is
appropriate and in keeping with the ethos of the club in acting with fairness
and propriety! It is vital that members have their say, but we owe it to members
to be certain that the members attending are in fact members! With the current
situation we cannot guarantee this would be the case!

To facilitate
a quick return to normality we would ask that all renewals take place in January
so that by the end of that month with all the renewals in we can select a
suitable day for the AGM. This is yet another result of Mr Xxxxx’s shameful
legacy and as the weeks roll by even more anglers are keen to meet him! Although he remains in hiding if you do
encounter him, please do ask him to explain his increasingly bizarre, childlike and
spiteful behaviour!

Photo 02 - Yesterday, you would think it's midsummer!

The season ends!

Well that’s it
for another year as our Brown Trout make the necessary moves to produce the
next generation that will provide our sport in coming years. The season has
been a decent one with a good number of heavier specimens being recorded. What is
becoming increasingly clear is that anglers are now choosing to return any
Trout caught. However any angler choosing to retain a Trout for the pot should
do so in the confidence that the loch can cope with the loss of some Trout!

The heavy
Trout cup this year is again being taken to Motherwell in the safe custody of
our treasurer Elliot Fraser who recorded a three and a half pound stonker! I think we could now strike a deal with our
engravers for a discount as we have the cup engraved with his name in advance for
the next ten years! Well done Elliot!

A councillor calls!

I received a
call from local councillor Vicky Davidson to ask if we had made any decision
regarding appointing a new lochkeeper who they would like to help them out with
managing the Cafe Green! Of course we had not yet arrived at a decision and I
told her that we had yet to make a decision. The view of the membership was that in light
of Mr Xxxxx’s catastrophic, shambolic and vitriolic tenure it would be unlikely
that we would seek to appoint another lochkeeper!

As I said
last week the problem has arisen due to brutal cutbacks in public spending made by the Tories. If this
funding is not restored and it is highly unlikely, the situation will remain
for the most part unaddressed. Any “solution “proposed that does not encompass
the restoration of funding will be a piecemeal solution which for one of many
reasons will fail!

The only way
progress towards a solution could be attained is to move to 24 hour CCTV
surveillance which whilst not moving to immediate rectification of any
developing problems will at least facilitate tracking down and dealing with
those responsible. If this is coupled with obvious signage stating that
recording is taking place perhaps those prone to developing Muppet like
behaviour with the aid of Buckfast and some white powders will think twice
about embarking on a destructive path knowing that they are being filmed and will
be tracked down to face the music!

This issue has been on the table for many years with no solution apparent, maybe it's now time to actually do something!

The above would not cost a fortune and
it might just work, I cannot for the life of me think why it has not been
tried!

The wider world in my view!

For Tory read UKIP extreme!

Who would
have thought mild mannered Theresa May whose bungling regarding immigration
figures sees her catapulted into the Tory hall of shame would have come out with
the hateful rhetoric churned out at the Tory conference! This party seems only
content when demonifying one group or other.

Yes the
hateful tripe first uttered by new home secretary Amber Dudd asks employers to
name all foreign workers in their employ and a name and shame culture initiated!
Listening to the former “remain” campaigner you might have thought you were
listening to a translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf! Oh they may bang on about the government that
works for everyone but they have given the game away with their xenophobic hate
speeches revealing their true nature and ambitions!

Right wing
Ukippers have been lining up to praise the Tories, Dudd’s speech in particular
coming across in a fashion right up their street! It will become a shameful
point in the country’s history! Every hardworking immigrant must be quaking in
their shoes wondering just how far these zealots will go! People who work hard
and benefit the country greatly face being devalued and singled out as hate
figures as the hateful rhetoric spreads!

I think now
there is no prospect of re entering the EU for how many of our allies would
want to be associated with their hateful ideas! A shocked Amber Dudd was forced
into a series of interviews once a surprised press got hold of the story. Her protestations
that the policy might not be adopted as policy proved to be ineffective.

It seems
with Tories you have either extreme right wing fanatics (the current lot) or clueless, directionless
fools (the last lot). The unfortunate outcome however in each case is that the ordinary
working class person is hamstrung in every case. The future does not look at all rosy!

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